UR Students are all smiles as they locate their families in the crowd at commencement.

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In a morning filled with advice - listen to your mother, find your passion, get a job - the Class of 2013 at the University of Rochester heard even more suggestions on success.

"Take some chances," Nobel laureate physicist and former U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu told more than 1,200 bachelor and master's candidates assembled Sunday morning on the Eastman Quadrangle at the 163rd commencement ceremony.